Transcript AGEP/KCP Mentoring Program

Program Highlights
Dr. Alec Gallimore, Co-PI
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Associate Dean, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
The University of Michigan
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Michigan AGEP Alliance (MAA)
Institutions
 Michigan State University (MSU)
 University of Michigan (UM)
 Wayne State University (WSU)
 Western Michigan University (WMU)
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Notable Programs
 AGEP Postdoctoral Fellowships
 Mentoring
 AGEP Scholars Mentoring Program
 MORE (Mentoring Others Results in Excellence)
 HBCU Outreach
 AGEP Community Building
 MAA Conferences
 Recruitment
 Mega Midwest AGEP Conference (with other alliances)
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
 Program began September 2007
 Provides research opportunity with teaching option for recent
Ph.D.’s in STEM fields
 One-year appointment, renewable for a second year
 Employment Package
 $55,000 annual salary with full health benefits
 $5,000 for research and travel expenses
 Faculty and college cost-share with MAA to support postdoc
 Strong faculty mentoring is a major criterion for selection
 7 fellows in engineering and the physical sciences
 2 or 3 new fellows starting this fall
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AGEP Scholars Mentoring
 Advanced AGEP scholars mentor First- and Second-
year Ph.D. students
 Goals:
• Increase student satisfaction and retention
• Enhance student skills for graduate school and beyond
• Develop meaningful connections between new and more
experienced students
 Currently >70 active mentor-protégée pairs
 One-on-one mentoring and group meetings monthly
throughout academic year
 Topics covered at group meetings include The Imposter
Syndrome, Finding an Advisor, and Stress Management
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 Mission
 To support and enhance graduate student mentoring to
improve retention, productivity, and overall student success
 To equip faculty, students, and staff with the best tools and
practices for mentoring
 Scope
 Eight STEM faculty members led by a social scientist
provide workshops, material, and consultation
 Results oriented and data driven approach
 Currently serving engineering, physical and health sciences,
and environmental sciences
 Future plans to expand to other disciplines
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HBCU Outreach
 Campus Visitation Programs:
Michigan State University — Enhance-Your-Future Conference
Western Michigan University— HBCU Visitation Program
 2-3 days on campus
 Include HBCU faculty (MSU) and student (MSU, WMU) participation
 Workshops
 Meetings with faculty members in student’s area of interest
 Meetings with current doctoral students
 AUC Dual-Degree in Engineering Program (UM)
 Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
 Seed funding for specialized science Master’s program (recruiting)
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AGEP Community Building
 Purpose: promote fellowship, hone research presentation skills, support
interdisciplinary dialogue, and facilitate student-faculty interaction
 Michigan AGEP Learning Community (MSU)
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Monthly meetings
Informal research presentations
Students and faculty interaction
 Michigan AGEP Scholars Seminar Series (UM)
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Monthly meetings
Formal research presentations and 5-Minute “Chalk Talks”
“AGEP Distinguished Researcher” sessions
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MAA Conferences
 Goal: Develop a community of scholars across alliance
 One alliance-wide conference each Fall and Spring term
 Rotated among alliance campuses with themes:
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Pathways to the Ph.D.
Conflict Resolution
Preparing Future Faculty
Diversity in the Classroom
Everything You Need to Know about Postdocs
Entrepreneurship
Writing Your Dissertation (Spring 2009)
 Migrated from weekends to Thursday night format with
great success
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Alliance-Wide Recruitment
 Alliance-Wide Recruiting
 Goal: leverage strengths, characteristics, and resources of
MAA universities by recruiting as an alliance
 Pros: Increased number of recruiting events possible, and
projection of state-wide community to prospective students
 Cons: MAA booth recruiting proved to be confusing to
prospective students
 Conclusion: Ineffective method of recruiting that we
abandoned two years ago
 Result: MAA shifted focus to retention, campus-centric
recruiting, and professional development
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Mega Midwest AGEP
Conference (MMAC)
 February 7-9, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois
 Collaborative effort among 4 AGEP alliances representing
18 universities
 CUNY/Michigan Alliance (SBES)
 Great Lakes Alliances for Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBES)
 Michigan AGEP Alliance (STEM)
 Midwest Crossroads Alliance (STEM)
 Participants
 ~200 students
 ~50 faulty members and industry representatives
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MMAC Conference Design
 Conference Goals
 To create an innovative collaborative effort among alliances
 Foster multi-alliance community-building among students
 Provide sessions focused on professional development for students at
varying stages in their doctoral programs
 Plenary sessions and concurrent workshops
 4 plenary sessions
 Nearly 35 workshops (most popular ones repeated)
 Career fair
 Representatives from both academia and industry
Participants gave the conference an overall rating of
4.3 on a 5-point scale, with 5 being “excellent”
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MMAC Participant Comments
 “Conferences such as these are greatly needed and appreciated by
scholars of color. Please keep up the great work you are doing to
assist scholars of color to learn and master the process of acquiring
their Ph.D.'s.”
 “I had an interest in many of the workshops and looked forward to
the opportunity for networking (with) across so many disciplines and
universities. Being hosted in Chicago was an added benefit.”
 “The sessions about how to navigate through specific milestones as
a professional (e.g. graduate school courses, grant writing, conflict
resolutions). These specific sessions provided skills and helpful
examples that were applicable across a variety of disciplines.”
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YOUR THOUGHTS?
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Programs Unique to Campuses
AGEP Learning Community - MSU
Frequent Flyer Program - UM
Dean’s Diversity Fellowship - WSU
AGEP Fellowship - WMU
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
 Partners
 Faculty PI contributes a minimum of $15K
 College of Engineering
 College of Literature Sciences and the Arts
 Scope
 7 postdoctoral fellows
 Departments: Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical
Engineering, Material Science Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Chemistry
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Publications
 3 In Preparation Stage
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Applied Optics
Journal of Fluids Engineering
Journal of the American Helicopter Society
 7 Submitted
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International Journal of Solids and Structures (Accepted)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (in press
Journal of Colloid Interfacial Science (November 2008)
Journal of Fluid Mechanics (January 2009)
Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structure (December 2008)
Journal of Rheology (in press)
 3 Published
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AIAA Journal (January 2009)
Journal of the American Helicopter Society (January 2009)
Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine (November 2008)
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Conference Presentations, Awards & Future
Plans
 Conferences
61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Acoustical Society of America 156th Meeting
Experimental Biology/American Physiological Society Annual Meeting
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society
57th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
 Awards
American Physiological Society Minority Scientist Travel Fellowship
Beginning Investigator Award from the American Physiological Society
Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award
Perrin Doctoral Dissertation Award
 Future Plans
5 are in renewal stage
1 Naval Surface Warfare Center—Caderock Division
1 Returning to home state due to family matters.
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MAA Mentoring Programs
 Michigan AGEP Scholars Mentoring
 Peer and near-peer
 Mentoring Others Results in Excellence (MORE)
 Faculty Consultations, Presentations and workshops
 Student Training
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AGEP Scholars Mentoring
 Advanced AGEP scholars mentor
First- and Second-year Ph.D.
students
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First- and Second-Year Ph.D. students
King/Chavez/Parks Scholars
LSAMP scholars
Urban Scholars Leaders
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MORE 2008-2009 Activities
 Workshops
 “Effective Mentoring” (New AGEP Mentors 2008)
 “Pathways to the Ph.D.” (MAA Fall Conference 2008)
 “Mentoring in the Research Lab”
 Mentoring Best Practices and Positive Mentor/Mentee
Interactions (Wayne State University, March 2009)
 “Provost Seminar on Mentoring” (May 2009)
 “Mentoring in the Graduate School Experience” (incoming
Ph.D. students 2008)
 Web Resources
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Recruitment on Individual
Campuses
 Campus visitation programs
 Preview Weekends
 Collaboration with Student Organizations
 AGEP support for Department and Faculty recruitment
 Grad Fairs and Conferences
 NSBE, SHPE, ABRCMS, SACNAS, California Diversity Forum,
Big 10 Graduate School Expo, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, MAES
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